Mastering Character Rigging in Moho Pro 14: From Tracing to Smart Bones & Widgets 🎨

I’ve capture how I rigged my sub-character Leopold. It was a lot of ad-hoc work, because I never even thought about what he’d look like from the side… (He's not a central character in the episode) This rig is still lacking body turns, hip turns, and I forgot to create an inner/back side of Leopold’s jacket, but I’m sharing it with you anyway. Learn from my mistakes…

00:00:00 - Start
00:03:44 - Setup Styles
00:06:22 - Mouth Switch Layer 👄
00:08:34 - Setting up mouth switch layers (interpolation)
00:10:28 - Tracing the rest of the body 🖋️
00:12:09 - Putting in the basic bone structure 🦴
00:12:45 - Bone strength adjustment 💪
00:13:07 - Adding pin bones for shoulders and wrist 📍
00:27:31 - Sleeve opening controller bones
00:34:10 - Adding target bones for feet and hands 🎯
00:39:26 - Fixing issues via point binding 👨‍🔧
00:40:35 - Fixing issues with smart bones 🩻
00:45:30 - Vitruvian Bones for feet 🦶
00:50:06 - Eye Rig 👁️
00:56:52 - Eyelid controller & blink action
00:59:52 - Eyebrow controllers (point & layer animation)
01:01:40 - Eyebrow controllers (bones)
01:02:15 - Head Turn 👤
01:07:01 - Lip synching (manually) 🗣️
01:09:10 - Hand target mode switch 👋🎯
01:13:44 - Sleeve button switch
01:16:01 - Quick Test

The character voice work was done by Nasim Benelkour @luckspath, he'll be the voice of Leopold in the upcoming pilot.

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A slacker dad struggles to raise his activist teenage daughter in the magical mayhem of a bewitched forest.
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